SQL Server Enterprise - 2 Core Pack (Monthly - 12 Month Term)

The database engine for when your company's data can no longer fail.

SQL Server Enterprise is the full edition: no artificial memory or capacity limits, with every feature the Standard edition leaves out.

It brings real high availability through Always On availability groups, so if one server goes down your operation keeps running on another without users noticing.

It includes data compression and partitioning to handle very large tables without the system crawling, transparent database encryption and detailed auditing of who queried what.

Maintenance operations run online, so there is no more waiting for the weekend or pushing people out of the system to rebuild an index.

This is the engine behind a full ERP, an operation with hundreds of concurrent users, or a system that simply cannot stop.

On licensing, where most mistakes happen: it is licensed by the server's physical cores, all of them must be covered, and the manufacturer's minimum is 4 cores per processor.

In practice, a single processor server with 4 cores requires 2 packs, and a dual processor server with 8 cores each requires 8 packs.

In exchange, core based licensing requires no CALs: you can connect as many users as you want with no additional per person licences.

The subscription model on a 12 month term lets you run the Enterprise edition without the upfront investment of a perpetual licence, and the cost is recorded as operating expense rather than capital investment.

We calculate the licensing your server requires based on its processors and cores, confirm whether Enterprise or Standard is the right fit and support your team through implementation.